Get ahead of the crowd with these great recent releases that may not be on the New York Times bestseller list, but that have critics and readers talking.
October - December 2025 Issue
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Al-Rashid, Moudhy N. Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History.
Anand, Pria. The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains.
Anderson, Jon Lee. To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban.
Ansfield, Bench. Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City.
Antrobus, Raymond. The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound.
Baron, David. The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-Of-The-Century America.
Bloch, Sam. Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource.
Boggs, Nicholas. Baldwin: A Love Story.
Buckbee, Brian and Fitzgerald, Carol Ann. We Should All Be Birds: A Memoir.
Caldwell, Chloe. Trying: A Memoir.
Carlin, Peter Ames. Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run.
Cheng, Eugenia. Unequal: The Math of When Things Do and Don’t Add Up.
Cohen Gilliland, Haley. A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Dick, Alix and Garcia, Antero. The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman's Reckoning with America's Inhumane Math.
Dyer, Geoff. Homework: A Memoir.
English, Charlie. The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature.
Feder, Kenneth L. Native America: The Story of the First Peoples.
Foner, Eric. Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays.
Frank, Matthew Gavin. Submersed: Wonder, Obsession, and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines.
French, Howard W. The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.
Gayle, Caleb. Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State.
Giovanni, Nikki. The New Book: Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things.
Gould, Jonathan. Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock.
Gradvall, Jan. The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover.
Grant, Rebecca. Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom.
Grant, Stephen Starring. Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Greenblatt, Stephen. Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival.
Grunwald, Michael. We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate.
Hercules, Olia. Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Ukraine.
Holt, Nathalia. The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda.
Houston, Keith. Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji.
Johnson, Tre. Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy.
Kean, Sam. Dinner With King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-Creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations.
Kincaid, Jamaica. Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-.
King, Rax. Sloppy: Or: Doing It All Wrong.
Krawec, Patty. Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds.
Kreizman, Maris. I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays.
Kushins, C.M. Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard.
Lacey, Catherine. The Möbius Book.
Leavy, Jane. Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It.
Lee, Joseph. Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity. Ebook
Litt, David. It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground.
Lubin, David M. Ready for My Closeup: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood Dream.
Malerman, Josh. Watching Evil Dead: Unearthing the Radiant Artist Within.
Mamet, Zosia. Does This Make Me Funny?: Essays.
Mann, Sally. Art Work: On the Creative Life.
Morris, Alexandra. A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures.
Morris, Susana M. Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler.
Nathan, Giri. Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis.
Nicolson, Adam. Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood.
Okeowo, Alexis. Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama.
Pollack-Pelzner, Daniel. Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist.
Potter, Will. Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable.
Purdum, Todd S. Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television. Downloadable audiobook
Queen, Khadijah. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran's Memoir.
Queeney, Tim. Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization.
Ramsey, Kelly. Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West.
Reiner, Rob and McKean, Michael, et al. A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap.
Ronson, Mark. Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City.
Seierstad, Åsne. The Afghans: Three Lives Through War, Love, and Revolt.
Selby, River. Hotshot: A Life on Fire.
Shapiro, Laurie Gwen. The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon. Downloadable audiobook
Stewart, Lindsey. The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic.
Stock, Jon. The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him.
Sweeney, Chris. The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne. Ebook
Tandoh, Ruby. All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now.
Toews, Miriam. A Truce That Is Not Peace.
Walter, Shoshana. Rehab: An American Scandal.
Watson, Graham. The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: A New Life.
Weiss, Jeff. Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly.
Willner, Nina. The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood.
Wright, Jennifer. Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power.
Young, Kevin. Night Watch: Poems.
Yu, Kaila. Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty.
Zeller, Tom Jr. The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction— And a Search for Relief.